Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This was a cine film that was used at the courses at Craibstone for candidates preparing for the SBA Expert exam. Some lovely material in here and they way they dressed… impressive. I was very pleased to have it converted to DVD and then to post it on youtube where it …

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Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Bait Hives for the Attraction of Honey Bee Swarms Bait hives can be used in …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Bee Space We all “KNOW” that bee space is between 4.5 mm and 8 mm …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Castellated Spacers for Beehive frame spacing Sheet metal plates with rectangular cut-outs that can be …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Clipping and Marking Queens Baldock Marking Cage This nasty looking gadget is known as a …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself PH. Clipping and Marking Queens Baldock Marking Cage This nasty looking gadget is known as a Baldock cage, it is …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Top or Bottom Bee Space Cold or Warm Way, placement of bee hive frames All …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Honey Bee Colony Assessment This is a “paperwork” exercise and is the collating and analysing of …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Sometimes known as “drippy bees” this pattern of behaviour helps young, wax secreting aged bees …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Division Board, for British Bee Hives The division board is sometimes called a follower board …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Drifting Behaviour in honey bees Prevailing wind or repetitive features in a landscape can cause …

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Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself PH. Dummy Frame, for British Bee Hives The dummy frame is also called a dummy board and is very often …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Easy Sections… ‘Perfect’ Sections Every Time This is not my original idea, it was passed …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Fecundity of Honey Bee Queens The two paragraphs that follow are a mixture of information …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Feeders for supplying honey bees with supplementary food Many types of feeder exist, but …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Feeding Candy (Fondant) to Honey Bees E.B. Wedmore described the making of candy in great detail, …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Feeding Honey Bees for Winter When to feed… Apart from which hemisphere you keep bees …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Deciding to keep bees at home is of course your decision, however please bear the following in mind. How well do you get on with your neighbours? What are you going to do if you lose control of a large colony and your neighbours get stung badly? What insurance do you have …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Uniting Honey Bees Using Flour Drilled coffee jar lid, photo…Dave Cushman One of the things …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Following Behaviour in Honey bees This may be an extension of guarding behaviour or it …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn If you have a big garden then all should be well, the following comments were made by myself on the beekeeping forum in response to some rather wooly thinking about having hives in a small suburban situation. If a hive goes berserk in a garden and it can and does happen …

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Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Hive Tools, for working with bee hivesHive Tools are specially designed levers with scraping edges …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Jumping Behaviour of honey bees under manipulation There are two aspects to this trait which …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn The Keeping it Simple Silly, beekeeping over view. Or KISS. If you consider the bee colony as an entity, and you should, disturbing it for no good reason is a bad idea. Now lets have a think about “no good reason”. It is all so very easy to justify to …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Laying Workers in Honey Bees This page deals with laying workers that can result in …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Making Increase (method 2) This method has many slight variants, but is mainly the one …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Making Increase in Honey Bee Colonies (Method 1) A method of increasing the number of …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Newspaper Bag Method of Uniting Bees To “unite” one frame of bees to an existing …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Various uses of honey bee nuclei How to use small colonies of bees known as nuclei in various beekeeping contexts. This where Poly Nuc units really shine in supporting small colonies and? are relatively cheap compared to the bought timber version. Beware the second hand ones as inevitably they never fit …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Numbers for Marking Queens that need a Definite Identity Queen honey bees are marked for …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. The Porter Bee Escape Invented in USA in 1891 (presumably by a man named Porter). …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Balling of Queens, A Behaviour of Honey Bees I first noticed this behaviour, not by …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. The Introduction of Travelled or mailed Queen Honey Bees There are many methods that have …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Robbing Behavior of Honey Bees Robbing Behavior of Honey Bees is the robbing of honey …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Running Behaviour in Honey Bee Colonies Running behaviour of honey bees on frames in bee …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Scout Bees Measuring or Inspecting The Volume of a Cavity Observations about repetitive bee behaviour …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. The Shook Swarm or Shakedown Method for Honey Bee Comb Renewal The shook swarm or Shakedown …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn A continuous flow of cool smoke to hand is comforting to the beekeeper whether needed or not. The usual fuels are sacking, cardboard, leaves, pine cones and rotten wood. The first two are prone to being dowsed in non flammable chemicals, leaves burn too fast and pine cones are resinous. Yes …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Lighting the Bee Keeper’s Smoker There is nothing magical about this operation, but it does …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. The Beekeeper’s Smoker small copper bee smoker, Photo… E.H. Thorne The smoker is a simple …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Written mainly by Beowulf A. Cooper, the information on this page has been garnered from …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. This method has been used in conjunction with porter escapes to allow the beekeeper to …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Uniting A Nucleus Of Bees To Another Hive A manipulation in honey bee management that …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Uniting a Super of Honey and Bees There are some occasions, when a colony is …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Uniting Bees Using A Peppermint Flavoured Spray Uniting honey bees by spraying them with …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Uniting Honey Bees Using Newspaper Newspaper uniting is the most common method of combining two …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Use of the Marburg Swarm Box The Marburg swarm box is a useful addition to …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Treatment Against Waxmoth and general sterilisation of honey comb Total control is unlikely to be …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Feeding Honey Bees for Winter When to feed… Apart from which hemisphere you keep bees …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. Winter Losses in Honey Bees, A Necessary Part of Strain Maintenance Most of us direct …

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This page is credited in full to Dave Cushman who created it. His voice is expressed in black colour text and any additions or comments in blue belong to myself. Credit: Dave Cushman’s website. PH. This page deals with laying workers that can result in queenless colonies, the sort of …